Heel-guard



0. M. ROBERTS.

HEEL GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED u0v.22. 1919.

1,368,056, Patented Feb. 8,1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO I. ROBERTS, OF HAYDEN JUNCTION, ARIZONA.

HEEL-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed November 22, 1919. Serial No. 889,940.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'rro M. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hayden Junction, in the county of Final and State ofArizona, have invented new and useful Improvements in Heel-Guards, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to heel guards or protectors and has for itsobject to provide a plate-like part adagted to be inserted into the shoestructure a ove the heel pile and between or upon the insole or top ofthe heel so as to prevent injury to the heel of the wearer because ofupwardly projecting nails, and the invention consists of theconstruction embodiments of which are shown in the accompanying drawingsand described and claimed herein.

Figure l is a plan view of the heel guard.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section showing the device mounted in a shoe.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of a modified form of the guard.

The heel guard, a form of which is indicated at 2, may be made of anysuitable material as metal or other hard substance that will prevent theupwardly projecting nails N usually employed in the erection of the heelH from penetrating the skin of the heel of the wearer of a shoe, aportion of which is indicated at S.

The heel guard or protector will obviously be made of different sizesand shapes and is latter can adapted to be inserted beneath the insole Ior over the top of the same as may be desired.

To prevent nails at the edges of the heel from passing beyond and aroundthe edge of the guard 2, the latter may be provided with a downturnedmarginal flange 3, Fig. 2, or the guard 2 may be provided in its angermarginal surface with a groove as at E The guard may be maintained inposition as by cementing or by the use of small nails or screws 5 passedthrough holes 4 therein. If the guard is placed beneath an insole the belifted to permit the insertion of the guard and then it can be cementedor glued down on the inserted heel guard.

Various changes may be made without departing from the spirit of myinvention as claimed.

I claim:

A device for protecting the heel of the wearer of a shoe againstpenetration by the heel nails, including a hard thin plate insertibleinto the shoe to lie over the heel above the adjacent nail points, saidplate being provided in its under marginal surface with a groove forminga flange to prevent nails from passing upwardly around the marginal edgeof said plate.

In testimony whereof I have name to this specification.

OTTO M. ROBERTS.

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